How Did Cyrus the Great Die?
April 2024 | Vol. 12.4 By Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani As far as we know, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, probably died around 530 BCE at the age of seven
The Book of Esther as a Source for Achaemenian History
June 2023 | Vol. 11.6 By Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani The Book of Esther (Fig. 1) is set in the Persian capital of Susa during the reign of Xerxes (Ahasuerus in Hebrew) and tells th
Visions from the Middle Territory: The Books of Haggai and Zechariah in their Persian Context
January 2022 | Vol. 10.1 By Robert L. Foster When we think of prophets and empires in the Hebrew Bible, we likely think of First Isaiah’s message in the light of the Assyrian Emp